When the COVID-19 pandemic led to the closure of construction sites in the spring of 2020, technology firm Triax Technologies looked for how it could help. The company’s worker-safety tracking tag could locate workers on site for safety incidents, but there was a sudden demand for ways to maintain social distancing due to COVID-19.
The company responded with Proximity Trace, which could track workers coming and going on site and beep when they got too close and violated social distancing. The new tags didn’t require the mesh network base stations of the full-featured Spot-r clips. They only logged tag-to-tag interactions.